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Geraldo Rivera’s Tense Confrontation With Baltimore Protester Defused By State Senator

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on April 29, 2015 · Flag

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Geraldo Rivera came very close to a violent confrontation with a Baltimore protester Tuesday night. But some deft work by the Maryland Senate Majority Leader defused it.

Rivera was live in Baltimore moments after the city’s newly-imposed, 10 PM curfew took effect. As he tried to talk to Sean Hannity, who was back in New York, a protester got in Rivera’s face, blocked the camera and a shouting match ensued. “We don’t need your false coverage!” somebody shouted. Another one repeatedly chastised Fox for “making money off of exploiting black pain.”

Fortunately, some calm intervention by Maryland Senate Majority Leader Catherine E. Pugh de-escalated what could easily have turned into a fistfight.

"It seems like they want trouble," Rivera said, probably hoping he'd get some hot Blacks Behaving Badly action.

No, Pugh told Rivera, people “don’t want trouble." She added, “We want our people to go home. But we also need the media to move back, because this is just inciting people.”

Pugh steered Rivera out of the crowd. Later, she said, “It’s a very emotional thing because people have been out here all day long. They’ve been demonstrating very peacefully.” She said that when people see camera lights, it incites them. “But these people have been out here all day long, just demonstrating very peacefully,” she continued. “And they’re demonstrating because they care about their neighborhoods, and they care about their communities.”

Very nicely done, Senator Pugh. Not surprisingly, nobody on Fox highlighted her good work.

Watch it below from the April 28 Hannity show.

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Richard Santalone commented 2015-04-30 10:04:00 -0400 · Flag
Indeed he was mj, because after all, that’s EXACTLY what Jabba the Ailes is paying him BIG $$$$ TO DO! Remember: the instant “Whore-aldo” Rivera steps out of line and starts acting like a REAL journalist, Jabba the Ailes will SHOW HIM THE DOOR IN LESS THAN 48 HOURS!
mj - the same one commented 2015-04-30 02:00:47 -0400 · Flag
Gerald Riviera was probably just looking for black kids wearing hoodies . . .

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marco commented 2015-04-29 16:14:30 -0400 · Flag
Greg Bolt, thanks for that link, Geraldo was heckled. I thought that guy just popped his head up in the camera as some people do and that was the provocation. Boy, did I pull a Hannity, saying something without knowing the facts.
Jane S commented 2015-04-29 15:58:15 -0400 · Flag
Hey, Kyle— I said in my previous comment that he had no business trying to do a live shot interview in the middle of a crowd of angry people.

But it’s simply not true, as Marco tried to say, that he yelled at the kid before the kid did anything.
Greg Bolt commented 2015-04-29 15:42:37 -0400 · Flag
Here’s a link to what happened before they went live on FOX News https://www.facebook.com/benjaminjhancock/videos/10153188750410590/?pnref=story
Kyle Dorfdorfendorf commented 2015-04-29 15:17:08 -0400 · Flag
Jane S:
Geraldo started it just by being there.
Jane S commented 2015-04-29 12:19:39 -0400 · Flag
Yeah, Marco, you sure did miss something. Geraldo was just starting to do an interview with the state senator when the kid stuck his face in between Geraldo and the camera and started yelling.

It was stupid all the way around, but Geraldo certainly didn’t start it.
marco commented 2015-04-29 12:01:57 -0400 · Flag
Did I miss something or was it Geraldo Rivera who yelled first and tried to push that guy out of his way? He also called this group of people vandals. Yes, that’s what you call inciting behavior. He kept saying to that man “you’re making a fool out of yourself”. Who’s really the fool?
d d commented 2015-04-29 10:23:32 -0400 · Flag
Very nicely done, Senator Pugh. Not surprisingly, nobody on Fox highlighted her good work.
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Saw Geraldo on F&F this morning talking about this and none of them gave Pugh any kudos. They didn’t even bother to play any of her interview.* They were more interested in showing the angry, young black man who was blocking Geraldo’s shot. F&F made sure to fill today’s show with video loops of angry black people who were rioting and looting. In fact, at times, they were even going back and re-airing riot footage from Monday.

The 3 stooges finally brought up the peaceful, positive things that were happening in Baltimore yesterday for just a scant amount of time – for 55 seconds – in the 3rd hour of their show. However, they did not bother to air any actual video footage of the good stuff (and their was plenty of it out there). They only showed 3 different images (photos? video stills?) of the good stuff which consisted of instances where African-Americans were being nice to the cops. Compare and contrast the 3 still images shown briefly in the last hour of the show to all the negative video loops that F&F chose to air today and there’s no doubt as to the message they wanted to reinforce with their viewers. We report, you decide? Um, not so much.

*during their segment with Geraldo, F&F did not play a single word from Sen. Pugh. But Elizabeth made sure to take a shot at her by saying, “And then Ms. Pugh seemed to insinuate there that it was the media causing the riots and violence.” Because F&F didn’t play any of the video of Pugh’s comments, the folks watching have no idea what she actually said and why. They were only told what she said from Elizabeth’s point of view. Pffft.
Jane S commented 2015-04-29 02:16:39 -0400 · Flag
They not only didn’t mention her “good work,” Hannity positively shrieked outrage at her.

But Geraldo made a total fool of himself throughout his segments, and I fully expect to see some clips on Jon Stewart tomorrow night. What, he’s surprised to find people heckling him nose to nose when he decides to (or agrees to) do a live stand-up buried in the middle of a large crowd of angry and mouthy young men?

It was kind of entertaining switching among Fox, MSNBC and CNN. The main lead on the other two channels was how the curfew was having its effect, things were mostly calm, and the cops were continuing to be restrained in their behavior. On Fox, though, every twitch was milked for “black people behaving badly” narrative. The title for Hannity’s hour was something like “Showdown in Baltimore!” But to their obvious dismay, there was very little action.

I was also hugely amused when Rep. Elijah Cummings, who was out in the crowd urging people to get off the streets and go home, refused to do an interview with them.
NewsHounds posted about Geraldo Rivera’s Tense Confrontation With Baltimore Protester Defused By State Senator on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-04-29 00:32:35 -0400
Very nice work by Maryland Senate Majority Leader Catherine Pugh.








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